In celebration of AM’s birthday this past weekend, SiriusXM aired (thee) Mike B’s “Banana Split Anthems” mix, featuring all the cuts that got played weekend after weekend at AM’s legendary, influential bash that broke dance music to Hollywood kids. Download it on Mike Brilly’s Soundcloud and feel the lvlz. Find out more about the DJ AM Memorial Fund here.
This was the first time I met DJ AM in 2004.
The DJ world just lost one of its brightest shining stars. As I type this less than 2 days after the fact, I’m still in disbelief. Perhaps last fall’s plane crash made us all recollect on how much we cared about him, but also made us feel that after such a close brush with death he was now here to stay. I wrote a post about it at the time. It’s unbelievably tragic to lose such a talented, kind and generous man just a few months later. Read More
A-Trak’s 10,000LB Hamburger tour kicks off this Wednesday (6.17) with a star-studded Bacardi B-Live date at M2 Ultra Lounge aka Mansion aka Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film There Will Be Bottles aka come get jiggy with us thanks to your FREE TICKETS from GBH, which you can get by RSVPing here.
It’s the type of thing that you tell yourself would never happen to you or someone you know. Especially when you’re on the plane literally every other day. You know that plane crashes happen but apparently you’re more likely to get killed by a shark than to be in a plane crash. So you just go about your life and get on those flights. You also go about your sometimes stressful life and forget how fortunate you are to do what you love for a living, and to do it in good health. Read More
At a recent live DJ/drummer show in Los Angeles, AM and Travis throw “Day ‘N’ Nite” between “Big Pimpin” and “Stay Fly” (spotted at H.E.R.)
